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When a knife-wielding madman attacked and killed eight children at an Elite elementary school in Ikeda, some Internet users in Japan had a sinking feeling. Six days before the bloody rampage on June 8, visitors to a popular bulletin board server called Channel 2 had seen an ominous rant. "My pride has been destroyed. I hate university-affiliated schools," the anonymous writer raged. "Some may say my anger is misplaced and misdirected, but it's all their fault. I am very vindictive...
...against the school. His father, long estranged from his son, told Japanese newspapers that Takuma once took, and failed, an exam there. Takuma was also accused, in 1999, of poisoning four teachers at another school by spiking water for tea with drugs. Osaka police refused to comment on the bulletin-board message...
...last year a 17-year-old boy hijacked a bus in Fukuoka prefecture, held 10 passengers hostage and stabbed one to death during a 15-hour, 279-km ride of terror. An hour before boarding the bus, he had left a cryptic message on the Channel 2 bulletin board: "Saga City (near Fukuoka) 17-year-old, heh heh heh heh heh." A week later, another 17-year-old announced online that he intended to "shock the world." He then assaulted a man on a Tokyo train with a hammer...
...point-deduction system for misplaced posters should also be reevaluated. If a candidate has 25 posters (of the hundreds that get hung each season) that are either covering that of another campaign, or are put up more than one time on a kiosk face or bulletin board, that candidate is disqualified from the race. The problem is that the rule does not acknowledge the fact that misplaced posters—especially those accidently misplaced by otherwise good-intentioned campaign volunteers—can be promptly removed without further damage to the election process...
...FairAir's tickets are aviation's equivalent of an opera ticket or a seat at an NFL game - you have the right to occupy that space on that flight. Or not. "We're recreating a secondary market for airline tickets. That market used to exist on bulletin boards and in newspapers," says Levy. Just think: you might be able to pick up a bargain when someone has to get rid of a ticket, or you could actually buy a seat on that sold-out flight (for the 'right' price...